Mobilizing through commercial platforms simultaneously strengthens the order being opposed
Evidence
But how do we make any progress when our target is precisely the wider economic, social, and political order built through our use of those same systems? — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 587
Categorization
- STORYSTEM: A political-movement story built around organizers trapped between the scale their cause needs and the extraction the platform exacts on every post.
- XREF: connects to: The shift to platforms concentrates ownership rather than ending it — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 78; Countercultural threats get defanged by commercial absorption — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 501; Anti-corporate movements instantiated their political principles in their own network structures — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 102 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Countercultural threats get defanged by commercial absorption
#corroborates(0.88) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 501 - Platforms remain bound to capitalist competition and profitability despite anti-capitalist rhetoric
#corroborates(0.85) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 93 - The shift to platforms concentrates ownership rather than ending it
#corroborates(0.82) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 78 - Anti-corporate movements instantiated their political principles in their own network structures
#contradicts(0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 102